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Deadline: June 30, 2021
PGO believes in the importance of diversity and inclusion (D&I) for everyone who wants to participate and engage with each other in the geoscience field and with the organization. This survey is aimed at understanding the rich mosaic of persons registered with PGO, volunteers sitting on Council or Committees, staff working for PGO, and the geoscience students studying in Ontario who are potential future PGO registrants. By filling out this survey, you are helping PGO to identify any barriers to registration or participation on Council and Committees and promote participation in PGO sponsored events or programs. It only takes 10-15 minutes to complete. The survey results will assist in learning about the challenges that professionals may be facing in the industry and possibly open the opportunity for PGO to provide materials, literature, guidelines, or webinars. Click on 2021 PGO’s Diversity & Inclusion Survey.
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Disclaimer: The events and media articles featured in Field Notes do not express or reflect the opinions of Professional Geoscientists Ontario, or any employee thereof.
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Open for Public Comments — Ontario's Environmental Compliance Initiatives
Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP)
The MECP has a number of proposed compliance initiatives to hold polluters accountable. The proposals will be open for a 60-day public comment period, commencing May 4, 2021 to July 3, 2021. The ministry will also consult with stakeholders through virtual stakeholder engagement sessions in 2021 on the implementation of new administrative monetary penalties framework.
1. Proposed Land Use Compatibility Guideline (ERO 019-2785)
2. Proposed Odour guideline (ERO 019-2768)
3. Updating the Ministry’s Compliance Policy to focus on high-risk incidents and publicly posting the Referral Tool and Service Standards-Compliance policy (ERO 019-2972)
4. Stakeholder Consultation on the Expansion of Administrative Monetary Penalties
See schedule for engagement sessions and links to registration:
Tuesday, May 18, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Registration
Thursday, May 20, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Registration
Wednesday, May 26, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Registration
Friday, May 28, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Registration
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.IN THE MEDIA
Disclaimer: The media articles featured in Field Notes do not express or reflect the opinions of Professional Geoscientists Ontario, or any employee thereof.
Mining Hall of Fame seeking nominees
Northern Ontario Business
The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame (CMHF) is currently seeking nominations for 2022 inductees.
Since it launched in 1988, the CMHF recognizes outstanding achievement in the mining industry. To date, it's recognized 195 individuals from across various fields within the sector.
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Neskantaga First Nation demands a halt to assessment of Ring of Fire road
Timmins News
Leaders with Neskantaga First Nation are calling for a halt to an environmental assessment for a proposed road to the Ring of Fire in Northern Ontario, saying the community is already facing numerous emergencies and the communities voices are only being marginalized further.
Chief Wayne Moonias wrote a letter to various government officials and First Nations leaders saying the community’s decision-making is being undermined by the province during a pandemic.
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Report on best management practices and approaches for rehabilitating pits, quarries
Daily Commercial News by ConstructConnect
A new document released by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) summarizes best management practices (BMPs) for rehabilitating aggregate pits and quarries in Ontario by backfilling with excess soil.
“This project is important because in Ontario we know that we are producing around 25 million cubic metres of soil every year,” said Dr. Madeh Piryonesi, one of the authors of the report, Best Management Practices for Aggregate Pit and Quarry Rehabilitation in Ontario, presented in a recent webinar.
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Erratics: Exotic evidence of the last ice age. Culturally significant glacial droppings
Sault Ste. Marie News
Humans sometimes exhibit erratic behaviour but even rocks can do so. There is also the numinous nature of stones, pebbles, boulders, scree and talus.
Most parts of Northern Ontario have been glaciated that is, ice sheets once enveloped the landscape. There are pieces of landform evidence of this momentous event.
Perhaps the most prevalent souvenir of the past is erratic boulders, large and small, mostly round-like.
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Yes, landslides occur in eastern Ontario
Cornwall Standard-Freeholder
Of all the risks in life, this may be one you’ve never thought of: getting killed, hurt, or having property destroyed in a landslide.
It happens a lot in this country, and as part of Emergency Preparedness Week, this newspaper spoke to a research scientist with Natural Resources Canada who’s put together a, well, ground-breaking national map that covers nearly 250 years of fatal landslides.
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Mamakwa's bill seeks safe drinking water for all Ontarians
NetNewsLedger
MPP Sol Mamakwa (Kiiwetinoong) is calling on the Ford government to support his bill to include Ontarians living in reserves in a law that ensures all Ontarians have access to safe drinking water. Mamakwa’s bill, the Inherent Right to Safe Drinking Water Act, will be debated in the legislature shortly.
“No child in Ontario should have to grow up never knowing what it’s like to be able to drink the water from the tap,” said Mamakwa.
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Plastic pollution in the deep sea: A geological perspective
Geological Society of America
A new focus article in the May issue of Geology summarizes research on plastic waste in marine and sedimentary environments. Authors I.A. Kane of the University of Manchester and A. Fildani of the Deep Time Institute write that “environmental pollution caused by uncontrolled human activity is occurring on a vast and unprecedented scale around the globe. Of the diverse forms of anthropogenic pollution, the release of plastic into nature, and particularly the oceans, is one of the most recent and visible effects.”
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